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Htb (cache) (6)

la oexthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

make a remark that may lead a man to speak of a matter which we wish to ask but don't like to ask directly

以言詞挑弄人講出實話

oexthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

subject (of a talk or conversation); topic; beginning of a conversation or discussion

話頭; 開場白

oexthaau-tioong [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

a long story

話長

tah-oexthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

an introduction; previous remarks

前言

tngr oexthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

change topic of conversation

轉換話題

zah laang ee oexthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

interrupt a man when speaking; to cut short another's long story

打斷人的話

DFT (2)

oexthaau 🗣 (u: oe'thaau) 話頭 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

講話的開頭 。 話 。

tah-oexthaau 🗣 (u: tah-oe'thaau) 踏話頭 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

事先把話說清楚 ， 讓別人事後無從抱怨或說閒話 ， 避免紛爭 。 說話的時候 ， 暗示性地預告要做的事 。 書前的序言 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

• HTB: "Hiexntai-buun" Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Modern Taiwanese Language Association.

• DFT: 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese). Ministry of Education, R.O.C. 2011. (CC BY-ND 3.0 臺灣) (data from MoeDict Desktop For MacOSX / Linux / Windows. 2015. see MoeDict and Taioaan Wiki). We have annotated over 5800 definitions in English for monosyllables (enter any monosyllable to get into monosyllable mode)

• MK: Taiwanese—English Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Maryknoll Language Service Center, Taichung, Taiwan. 2001 [1976]. (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 TW)

• TC/TH: Iûⁿ Ún-giân. 台語文/中文辭典 Taiwanese — Chinese Dictionary & 台文/華文線頂辭典 [Taihoa Online Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese).

• EDUTECH: Liim Keahioong (2001-2003). EDUTECH: Taiwanese—English Dictionary Searched with Concise Atonal Spelling. Edited and cross-referenced to EDUTECH General Taiwanese Words (正確台語拼字辭和漢字辭), Embree (1973), and Maryknoll (2001).

• Embree: Embree, Bernard L. M. (1973). A Dictionary of Southern Min: based on current usage in Taiwan and checked against the earlier works of Carstairs Douglas, Thomas Barclay, and Ernest Tipson. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Language Institute. (OCLC 2491446. Data from GitHub - ChhoeTaigiDatabase. See NY Times article)

• Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019. (Lim08 data: GitHub - Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-tian)

• TDJ: Ogawa Naoyoshi, ed. (1931, 1932). 臺日大辭典 Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten [Taiwanese—Japanese Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Japanese). Volume 1 & Volume 2. Taihoku: Governor-General of Taiwan.